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Return of the Magnificent Seven

Burt Kennedy(1966)

Review

Our Score

by David Parkinson

The title of this sequel to The Magnificent Seven is more enticing than truthful, for Yul Brynner is the sole returnee from John Sturges's blistering translation of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. Of the newcomers, trusty tough guys Warren Oates and Claude Akins alone cut the mustard as Brynner and his band attempt to liberate a Mexican village from the slavery imposed by a megalomaniac father grieving for his dead son. Director Burt Kennedy could always be depended upon to grind out robust westerns, but Larry Cohen's derivative script gives him too little to get his teeth into.

Summary

The leader of a gang of bandits enslaves all the men from a Mexican village while maddened with grief over the death of his son. However, one of his hostages is a survivor from the original team of gunfighters, and his wife persuades his two remaining companions to form a new band of heroes and mount a rescue mission. Western sequel, starring Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller and Warren Oates.